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I personally feel Thunder is rightfully one of the least useful Int spell for the mage. The 500 radius is so small, it should be increased to be like 700 or something. The damage isn't that good either, even 5 charge ice spear can do more damage.
When you compare TH to fireball, fireball is generally more useful because it hits a larger radius. A single high ranked gunner skill does as much damage as a 5 charged Thunder with zero charge and instant load. A single reforged crash shot does the same thing while not being aggroed by the whole pack. A reforged lance WM can hit upwards to +13k.
Unless you can constantly snap cast TH, I don't see it as being better than other skill sets. It's a good opening spell.
I'll be on topic
Overrated: Close Combat/Swords/Unreforged Lances
Underrated: Blaze Glove Reforge, Gunner, Rain Cast
Overrated: racial tensions
Underrated: spelling and grammar
But really...
Overrated: shadow mission spam
Underrated: commerce... that semi afk op exp you can split screen with netflix. Also if you resell pianos for around 7m its like your gold profits are increased by 130% or so (with a delay, granted.)
Obvious trolling is obvious.
But yeah, commerce is overlooked by many players. I don't know if this is a problem in other servers as well, but the limited good runs out really quick in Alexina, so some people just don't even bother.
Obvious trolling is obvious.
But yeah, commerce is overlooked by many players. I don't know if this is a problem in other servers as well, but the limited good runs out really quick in Alexina, so some people just don't even bother.
I have a lvl 20 outfit for speed so a few non limited loads are decent for me and the exp is still great for solo grinding. Limited goods on Ruairi are usually camped by myself and 3-5 other players so that Dunby and Tir's limited goods are usually sniped, with cobh and tail usually lasting 5 and 15 minutes after restock, respectively. I don't have the merchant rating for Tara but I rarely see it depleted so I presume the profit is mediocre similar to Emain's limited good.
Overrated - lance, fighter
Underrated - blaze, kimchiiyoloswag, Ice Spear
Overrated: Martial Arts tournament
Underrated: Peaca (except abyss)
Nobody does things for fun anymore...
Well I personally find martial arts tournament to be fun, but hey maybe that's just me!
Well that's great and all...However if everyone ran things for fun, MA tourney wouldn't be supersaturated right now lol....
... Ok valid point I see what you mean. But I still disagree xD Highly disagree.
Thunder to me is a very useful spell. For one, in my eyes, it can be very powerful. Sure it has limited AoE compared to the other 2 intermediate spells...but the fact that it can hit 5 separate times makes it powerful. For me at least, thunder almost never fails to critical hit at least once, and when it crits, it hurts alot. Also Its limited AoE is perfect when soloing, as you can control mobs with it especially when theres an aggro limit. Thunder also acts as an A.I disruptor while in "standby" so you can set up anything you want in the 6 seconds it takes to rain down. Ice Spear can do it too but considering its AoE...yea you have to be very skilled at using ice spear to make the most of it. Finally, thunder is the only intermediate skill that you can chain to windmill, which makes it a decent defensive skill. Again the A.I disruption comes into play.
Finally you used gunner skills, reforged crash shot and reforged lanced windmill. Gunners skills like bullet storm and shooting rush are like ice spear to me. Either you kill it in one shot or you are forced to clean up after yourself. Crash Shot is a very nice snipping skill. You can do it from a safe distance and avoid aggro. Which is nice and all, but its comparable to a 5 charge fire lightning set up. I can do upwards of 20k damage to 5 enemies, only thing is i have to get close, which is ok to me. The fire lightning fuse bolt puts things on "alert" which disrupts A.I on some things :D. Finally windmill...Different story altogether. As a mage you're gonna be fighting from a distance. As a lance you fight with moderate distance. I'm aware non mage skills are instant load but thats because your activation distances are way different. Fireball and thunder have activation distance of 2000 while WM only has i think...500 around the user? yea can't remember but the only skill that compares to wm in a mages repertoire is shockwave, a decent defensive skill but only useful for saving your arse lol.
P.s Oh almost forgot about reforges... Reforged thunder is lethal. Without reforges or criticals, thunder hits about as hard as a non- crit fireball, cumulative damage wise. Now factor in random crits... Yea... On average thunder hits harder than fireball.
I agree Gunner skills leaves yourself pretty wide open if they don't die after 1-2 hits after the attack. However Thunder also has the same issues when I was a mage. If the 5 charge doesn't kill the monster, then what? All of the mobs will be aggroed to you, and they are spread out. The knockback isn't as predictable as other skills. Sure you can load windmill after, but that won't really solve the problem. However snap cast would be great. That being said, gunner is a lot better then Thunder if the first strike doesn't finish. Gunner can shooting rush, then windmill or switch to puppet or ranged and then use shooting rush again when the 5.5 sec cd is up. Whereas thunder has to take time to charge up the spell unless you have snap cast available, which has a long cool down once used.
I assure you Thunder is a lot slower charge time and lower damage than Gunner when you hybrid. Pure thunder mage(which i tried in the past) doesn't do good damage, and you are aggroed while the mobs are split up. I was a pure mage myself, and I find gunner to be better than Thunder in almost every category. The mage skill set is great, but Thunder needs improvement.
Thunder imo is not meant to be spammed, it's a great opening skill for snap cast, or Charge Thunder > Snap cast TH. But after that it's better to use another mage skill or skill set.